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Ready for a hard Connections today? Not just across one group, but all of them, I’d say, which is kind of a rarity. See how you do.
How to Play Connections
Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here.
The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.
There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.
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You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles. So, onto the hints and answers:
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers.
- HERCULE
- POIROT
- AJA
- GAUCHO
- PALAZZO
- PIAZZA
- ARE
- APOSTLE
- STRAWBERRY
- DEPOT
- CULOTTE
- GOODEN
- HER
- SEAVER
- MORTGAGE
- HAREM
Here is a hint that gives you one word per group:
- 🟡 Yellow Group – GAUCHO
- 🟢 Green Group – DEPOT
- 🔵 Blue Group – GOODEN
- 🟣 Purple Group – ARE
The hints for the Connections groups today are:
- 🟡 Yellow Group – Bottom fashion
- 🟢 Green Group – Unnecessary letter
- 🔵 Blue Group – Meet the _____
- 🟣 Purple Group – Removed letter
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
- 🟡Yellow Group – Wide-Legged Pants Styles
- 🟢Green Group – Silent “T”
- 🔵 Blue Group – New York Mets Legends
- 🟣 Purple Group – Greek Mythological Figures Minus a Letter
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are:
- 🟡Yellow Group – Wide-Legged Pants Styles (CULOTTE, GAUCHO, HAREM, PALAZZO)
- 🟢Green Group – Silent “T” (APOSTLE, DEPOT, MORTGAGE, POIROT)
- 🔵 Blue Group – New York Mets Legends (GOODEN, PIAZZA, SEAVER, STRAWBERRY)
- 🟣 Purple Group – Greek Mythological Figures Minus a Letter (AJA, ARE, HER, HERCULE)
Man what a puzzle. For Yellow Group, I simply have not heard of any of those, I’m sorry. I’m, just a dude who wears jeans and sweatpants and that’s really it (work from home baby!). You could give me a million guesses and I could not have told you what kind of pant “GAUCHO” is.
Green Group is also hard as it’s really easy to read into words for what they are, not how they sound. Even ones missing a letter or a word in front of or behind them are more clear than this. Plus we have NYT messing with us with HERCULE and POIROT both being clues, which are not in the same group, because of course they’re not.
Blue Group requires you to have both express knowledge of both baseball and the New York Mets, of which I have neither, and the NYT is getting a close to home. The legends here are Dwight Gooden, Mike Piazza, Tom Seaver, Darryl Strawberry. I know that one! Would have never guessed these others.
Finally, Purple Group could maybe be the easiest today? That’s Hercules, Hera, Ares and Ajax. Ajaz the warrior is probably the most obscure and may trip you up, and I don’t know what else Aja would have been if you didn’t get the concept of this group. Very hard puzzle day. How did you do overall? Break your streak?
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